>>11898669For a little more cement, the closest I could get phonetically would be the official aramaic of scorpion, which is עקרבא (eqarba).
>>11898678I'm not 100% on the camel hair sackcloth getup, but the belts are obviously symbolic of the ouroborus (and by extension, the whip). Also, they wore their (always wavy, not necessarily curly) hair parted down the middle as all Levite Samaritans did; another motif copied by the Merovingians.
